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FACT CHECK: Did Rihanna say she’s originally Igbo? | The Cable.

TheCable also found out that mainstream media platforms such as The Nation and Daily Post, which also published the claim, have deleted the report as seen here and here.

VERDICT: The viral report quoting Rihanna as saying she is originally an Igbo woman is false.

A report, which claimed Rihanna, the Barbadian singer, said she is originally an Igbo woman recently surfaced online and went viral.

"My mum told me that I’m originally an Igbo woman. Igbo is a tribe in Africa,” she was quoted to have said.

The quote was circulated on various blogs and social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

On the Facebook page of Daily Times Nigeria, for instance, the quote garnered over 19,000 likes, 7,000 comments and 2,500 shares.

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Some social media users have also reacted to the claim.

“It’s good when someone knows where he/she from I’m originally an Igbo woman, #Rihanna reveals,” a Twitter user wrote.

“We her kinsmen have always known this. I had earlier mentioned this in one of my interviews…on June 12 2012 during the burial of my Mother. Rihanna is from our ancestral lineage in Amangwu Ohafia, in Abia State. This is a known fact,” another user wrote.

Similarly, a user wrote: “#Biafrans we have people all over.”

BUT DID RIHANNA ACTUALLY SAY THIS?

Checks by TheCable showed there was no credible source where the 33-year-old singer and entrepreneur made the claim. The music star did not grant any interview where she made the remark.

Further checks on her social media accounts — Facebook, Twitter and Instagram — showed she did not post the viral claim attributed to her.

TheCable also found out that mainstream media platforms such as The Nation and Daily Post, which also published the claim, have deleted the report as seen here and here.

Rihanna, whose real name is Robyn Fenty, was born to Monica Braithwaite, an Afro-Guyanese, and Ronald Fenty, Afro-Barbadian with Irish descent.

In a 2019 interview with the New York Times, Rihanna, who recently became a billionaire, reflected on her ancestry.

“In my own household, my father is half black, half white. My mom is black from South America. I was seeing diversity. That’s all I knew,” she had said.

A look at her family tree also shows that there is no evidence that the singer has a Nigerian origin as suggested by the viral report.

VERDICT: The viral report quoting Rihanna as saying she is originally an Igbo woman is false.

https://www.thecable.ng/fact-check-did-rihanna-say-shes-originally-igbo

Just see what a fully fledged National Newspaper is doing with useful space they could use to address critical issues ..

Shame dey catch me for The Cable I swear

Why These Afonja dey carry am for head like dreadlocks..

Why us anything good related to the Igbo's dey pain una..

P.S
If another person good news dey pepper you, good thing no ho reach you oo

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FarahAideed:
Just see what a fully fledged National Newspaper is doing with useful space they could use to address critical issues ..

Shame dey catch me for The Cable I swear

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So you mean, they shouldn't have fact-checked it? And allow IpOB Terrorists to misguide their already brainwashed followers?

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OkuFaba:
Why These Afonja dey carry am for head like dreadlocks..

Why us anything good related to the Igbo's dey pain una..

P.S
If another person good news dey pepper you, good thing no ho reach you oo

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IpOB zombie!

Nonpartisan1:
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So you mean, they shouldn't have fact-checked it? And allow IpOB Terrorists to misguide their already brainwashed followers?

Twitter users already fact checked there was no need for a Newspaper to jump in , abi are they that jobless ?

Nonpartisan1:
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IpOB zombie!

you again.. Anti-igbo human being. Just continue viewing how we make it while you wallow in your hatred.

Pained møthêrfûkêr

IGBO AMAKA TO THE WORLD

Cable.ng I actually taught it was cable.uk
Iranu oshi and nonsense.
Who believes anything from Sai Barbarians?